Naw, it’s the opposite. See, the union also has a right not to associate with you.

No, no they do not. “Got sick of your face” is considered a valid reason to fire someone in at-will states. Employers have to go out of their way to explain that their motives were racist, sexist, or ableist for a non-union employee to have the right to contest their termination.

That’s... the opposite of job security. Sorry, bud, simple market economics dictate that she’s got no leverage at work. Her only opportunities for better pay, professional consideration, or guaranteed retirement benefits are via nepotism and favoritism. She’s not the good guy in this story.

This all sounds like a real thing that 100% actually happened

Yeah, nobody ever got angry over politics before Facebook. Definitely.

No, it fucking hasn’t. The number of wealthy people has grown. The number of poor people has grown much more quickly. Industriaslization has not spread to former colonies except where created by Soviet-backed, strong-armed import substitution.

A generation!? Medicare for all its supported by most voters. The reason it hasn’t been passed is because of anti-democratic structures like state government and the electoral college. I sincerely think any argument for or against Universal Healthcare and Socialized Medicine that doesn’t take those things into account…

Yes. My post (solely) regarding the topic of a public conversation is totally the same as you doing your best Mean Girls impression. How DARE I have input actually germane to a discussion where your brilliant rhetorical strategy of pretending not to know what words mean was totally just about to put those libtards in…

Honestly, wouldn’t have given it any thought until you decided to leave a salty reply to my comment.

Ironically, it’s whay reminds me we’re all just people, in it together

Oof, this was a painful read. Stuff’s getting closer to proverbial home every day.

Because unions organized on the Industrial model (read: Not the goddamn AFL) include workers across geographic and professional lines. In the words of my dearest friend at SEIU (“ones I wasn’t banging” category, anyway) “si se the fuck puede because of that right there!”

Yes, because surely I know all these minutia of Russian history, but have never read the most famous book ever written about the Soviet Union. Good response. Very refute. Also, look up “genocidal,” you seem to think it just means murderous generally, and... no. Using it that way makes you sound insane and/or like a…

Only the ones that service residential homes, and even then, not in most places, no. No city is footing the bill for the dumpster behind the Wendy’s. Some places won’t do it for anyone. Most that provide any service do so through a private contractor. That’s why its such a famous thing of Mafia fronts, a la The…

I’m talking about the 1991 All-Union Plebiscite, of course, because there was no international election monitoring to turn to during the interwar period, but please, continue lecturing me about the seventy-year history of the USSR. You seem to really know your stuff.

Why would anything be EXACTLY the same? This is some pretty desperate strawmanning you’re turning to. Black people can vote way more than they used to- yet there’s still a civil rights movement! BUT HOW? I can run Excel on this computer, but some other computer is FASTER? Impossible! Because I’m already running Excel!…

 Yeah, which was different from Anti-Federalism! In totally real ways that existed, because ‘Murica amirite

 Right up until its so shitty that peope DO get to claim ownership over you and kill you. Some allowance must be made for evil peope to be liars who don’t exactly call a spade a spade, no?

Lol, try to tell a Russian that. People who were there at the time must have been some real masochist, seeing as 77% of the voted to keep it up in a free, fair, internationally monitored election.

 Leverage.